Patent & IP news for October 16, 2017

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post image From Alicante to Munich - the EPO appoints its new President from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The EPO has announced that Antonio Campinos has been elected as its new President. His appointment will be for a five-year term starting on 1 July 2018. 

Mr. Campinos, a Portuguese national, is currently Executive ...

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post image All Quiet on the Eastern District of Texas Front? (Further Update) from www.grayonclaims.com

Over four months have passed since the Supreme Court's TC Heartland decision.  New patent case activity in the Eastern District of Texas remains low, as demonstrated by the chart below, which shows the number ...

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post image Another German decision questions reasonableness of GS Media presumption if generally applied from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A few weeks ago this blog reportedon the judgment of the German Federal Court of Justice which decided that the presumption of knowledge envisaged by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU ...

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56 Groups Call For Deletion Of Internet Filtering Provision In EU Copyright Proposal from www.ip-watch.org

Today a range of civil society organisations sent an open letter to European Union policymakers calling for the removal of a provision they say would violate citizens' rights by forcing monitoring and filtering of copyrighted ...

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Oil States and SAS arguments set for November 27 from patentlyo.com

Oral arguments for both Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, No. 16-712 and SAS Institute Inc. v. Matal, No. 16-969, have been set for November 27, 2017. Oil States challenges ...

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Reckoning With The “System Battistelli” from www.ip-watch.org

MUNICH — Considerable quality problems in the examination and processing of patent applications at the European Patent Office (EPO) were deplored by a group of patent attorneys during a visit of the new Chair of the ...

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Experts at IPAS 2017 will explore growing disregard for IP rights from ipcloseup.com

At a time when the value of IP rights under attack by businesses, individuals and the courts, the first IP Awareness Summit will examine the reasons and possible responses. The Intellectual Property Awareness Summit, which ...

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Evidence That Patents Survived 20 Reexamination and IPR Proceedings Excluded Under FRE 403 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion in limine to exclude evidence under FRE 403 that the patents-in-suit survived 20 reexaminations and inter partes review proceedings. "Because of the effect of IPR estoppel, the IPRs necessarily ...

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Early Whispers Of Next WIPO Director General Election Cycle from www.ip-watch.org

It’s safe to say most delegates at the annual World Intellectual Property Organization General Assemblies this month gave no thought to the next election for the director general of the UN agency. It’s ...

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Legal Battle Over Monkey’s Selfie Leads to Settlement from www.iposgoode.ca

Recently British photographer David Slater came to a settlement with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in a lawsuit over who owns the copyright to a selfie taken by a monkey, Naruto, who ...

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District Court Allows Mohawk Tribe to Join ANDA Litigation, Finds Patents at Issue Invalid from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- In something of an anticlimax, Federal Circuit Judge William Bryson, sitting by designation on the bench of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, granted Allergan's ...

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